These stories formed a series in the Greensboro, North Carolina, "News-Record" describing a school system's attempts to prevent reading failure. The themes of the articles include the following: the implementation of the Right to Read program in an elementary school; a diagnostic reading center which is an alternative, a supplement, and a prod for a cooperative effort to help children read; the five steps through which students progress in the Right to Read diagnostic-prescriptive approach to learning how to read; and the International Reading Association's local and international efforts to improve reading abilities of students. (WR)